If you’ve already installed the iOS 17 public beta, these are the first features you should try.
The iOS 17 public beta is now available for download, and anyone with a compatible iPhone can enjoy the benefits of Apple’s new operating system. Despite the fact that from the outside it may seem that iOS 17 is coming with few new features, it is by testing it that you will find many small improvements very interesting.
Therefore, although it is a beta version, we bring you 10 Features Worth Installing iOS 17 Right Now beta. And, in case you already have it installed, we encourage you to try them out on your iPhone.
1. At rest
This iOS 17 feature is awesome
This is one of the best features of iOS 17. When you put your iPhone on charge and position it horizontally, you will see a new screen where we can have a table clock, our calendar, the music player or our favorite photos. And best of all, it’s completely customizable.
From Settings > Idle you can enable different options. To customize what appears on screen, charge your iPhone, lock it, and rotate it to landscape mode. By swiping sideways and up and down, you can change what appears to show what you love.
2. Contact displays
This is one of the first iOS 17 features you need to try
It is a function that improves the call interface when an important and well-known person calls. You can customize both your contact poster, to share it with other users, and that of any contact.
Just go to the Contacts app and select the contact you want to create a poster for. Tap Edit in the top right, then tap Edit below the photo. Now tap Customize and you can create the contact poster by modifying images, colors, texts or Memojis.
3. Offline Mapas and Apple Maps
In iOS 17 we can download maps to use them offline in Apple Maps
A new maps function in iOS 17 allows us to download maps to consult them when we have no internet connection. Nail very useful function, especially if we are visiting a country and we do not have data. You just have to do this:
- Go to the Apple Maps app on the iPhone.
- Tap your avatar in the lower right area.
- Go to the Offline Maps section.
- Tap Download a new map.
- A box will appear on the map and everything in it will be downloaded, you can adjust it by zooming and moving around the map.
- In the lower area you will see how much the downloaded area of the map occupies.
- Hit the Download button below
4. Interactive Widgets
Finally, interactive widgets come to the iPhone with iOS 17
This is a novelty of iOS 17 that may have gone unnoticed by the vast majority but is of brutal importance. Apple now allows the widgets are interactive and not a simple direct access to the application in questiongiving them a lot of use.
At the moment there are not many apps with interactive widgets, but while they are coming we recommend the music widget from which you can pause and play our songs or the home widget, from which we can turn on the lights simply from the widget.
5. Visual safety distance
This iOS 17 feature wants to help our health
This iOS 17 function will help our view since it was activated will detect if we use the iPhone too close to the eyes. You can enable it from Settings > Usage Time > Screen Distance.
To help reduce eye strain and the risk of myopia in children, the “Screen Distance” feature will notify you when you hold an iPhone or iPad with Face ID too close to your eyes
And you already have iOS 17 these are the first functions you should try. The new iPhone operating system keeps many secrets and little by little you will discover them.
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